User talk:Chuq/Archive5

Archives:
 * Archive 1 (Dec 2003 - Nov 2004)
 * Archive 2 (Dec 2004 - Nov 2005)
 * Archive 3 (Nov 2005 - Jul 2006)
 * Archive 4 (Jul 2006 - Oct 2006)

Northern New South Wales Soccer Federation
I believe you were seeking info on the NNSWSF. It is independent of Soccer NSW with the same standing as any of the other state federations when it comes to the FFA... --Hack 02:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images in userspace
Hi, I noticed you have a few fair use images (mostly logos) on your subpages User:Chuq/Images and User:Chuq/TV stations. Please note that per Fair use the use of fair use images are not allowed outside of articles. You are free to list and link to images you have uploaded, but please refrain from actualy displaying any non-free images in your userspace. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 05:41, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Note on the Conventions and a question about removing V for Victory from the page
Thanks for the feedback. I will make sure that I comply with the Wiki guides but I am a little confused as to why our V for Victory group was removed form the page. Could you explain ... Blueheels

an fyi :)
You may be interested to know that every episode of The 4400 was nominated for deletion as well and is located at the following page: Articles for deletion/The New and Improved Carl Morrissey (The 4400 episode)

I guess people dont like The 4400 :-(? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 09:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Just because you're the first tazmanian...
gives you no right to boss around anyone speculating the sexual orientation of a robot from star wars. now if you were the tazmanina devil that would be another thing but i know you're not because you would be typing "@#!#@@$%#$#$?!!?" but you're not so just stop it with your authoritative fascism —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meltzer (talk • contribs) 08:01, 27 October 2006
 * Hilarious :P -- Chuq 22:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

List of bands with complete sentence name
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of bands with complete sentence name, has been listed at Articles for deletion/List of bands with complete sentence name. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --SkerHawx 01:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Australia national football team
Can we change Australia national football (soccer) team to Australia national soccer team. I just don't like the title and how it looks. Kingjeff 06:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Hazzard
Hazzard

Hi! I'm pretty new to Wikipedia. I created an article about a band called Hazzard. It received a speedy delete tag and was deleted by NawlinWiki, because I had failed to claim notability. I recreated the article, although perhaps I could have asked NawlinWiki to restore it. This time, I argued notability in the discussion page, and the notability should be apparent from the text as well.

Now I've noticed that it has been deleted once more. However, I don't recognize the first line of the article as I wrote it in the delete log. And I see that an article of the same name has been deleted before. Could it be that someone has changed the entire content of my article for some self-promoting purpose? I'd be grateful if you could check if the previous version of the article was fit to remain on Wikipedia. Please consult Talk:Hazzard.Odd M. Nilsen 20:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Reminder: I would be grateful if you could reply to me, please. Keep in mind that my article had nothing to do with previous articles with the same title. Yours, --Odd M. Nilsen 10:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for reply & assistance.--Odd M. Nilsen 11:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

New articles
Thanks for the information. The problem was not that the people were not at all notable, but that the articles were probably copyright violations and were written like advertisement copy, which is a speedy deletion criterion, and that the user's only edits were adding bios of people related to this one radio show. The user also did not respond to requests to stop, and repeatedly re-posted the same articles. I don't have a problem if you want to re-create the articles in proper wiki-style. Thanks, Mak (talk)  04:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Feel free to unblock if you think it's appropriate. I'd just ask that you double-check that the articles you undelete aren't copyvios. Thanks, Mak (talk)  05:16, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Restore Talk:Sarah Howells
Can you please restore this talk page which was deleted under WP:CSD (talk pages of pages that do not exist). I made a comment there. Thanks! --WikiSlasher 12:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK thanks --WikiSlasher 13:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Panarjedde‎
He's nothing but trouble. He keeps on harassing me. You might want to check AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/November 2006/Attilios out. Kingjeff 02:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Ben Buckley
''You wrote - Some pretty quick work from you getting that article written! :) -- Chuq 04:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)''

I had it all ready to go this morning when I heard the rumour he was to be announced, so when it was announced I managed to get in first...--Hack 10:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

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Edits to Internode Systems and Simon Hackett
FYI, see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#that guy with a grudge against Chuq and Longhair. Cheers. -- Longhair\talk 03:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah damn right you better, the fun is only just starting. :P Regards Mr CLV. 193.196.41.40 05:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thedrunkendialer.com

 * I am wondering of this site could be considered an internet phenomena or not. I know it is rather popular and extremely humorous. It features a guy who holds a weekly contest offering $100 via PayPal to the individual who leaves him he best Drunk dialing message on his voicemail.


 * I did not add this site to this article yet for fear that people would think I am self-promoting. I have no affiliation with the site and can’t find any direct marketing used to purchase products. I just think it is very funny and well known around my area.


 * I look forward to some objective input before I add, or do not add this site to the list. Take a look for yourself, you be the judge…


 * Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles written as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see Wikipedia:Spam. (Would this apply?)

Thanks, 69.167.102.181
 * http://www.thedrunkendialer.com/drunk-dialer.html

P.S. I posted the same message on User_talk:Wavy_G for more opinions. Look forward to hearing from you...

Thank you for your input
I greatly appreciate you opinions and value your perspectives. Your vantage point enables me to better conceptualize Wikipedia’s purpose. I will watch this site in the future to determine if it becomes more notable, however I won’t lose any sleep if it is not included in that particular article. However, I did find it to be quite hilarious, yet I understand that humor is not a criterion for adding a link to an article.

Look forward to hearing from you, 69.167.102.181

Jericho and disambiguation
Thanks for fixing up the link. I'd forgotten that the "otheruses1" template only takes one parameter anyways, automatically appending "(disambiguation)" to the page name. Cheers. --Ckatz chat spy  03:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Block of Lord Bilby:
Well done, was just warning the user when I noticed he had vandalised many other pages. Was just about to get an admin when you blocked him. Good job. I was a bit miffed as I had just been reverting his edits to Wikipedia for over 10 minutes (since I'm no admin...) Good job... :) Spawn Man 06:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

You around on IRC? Just saw you editing... Rebecca 05:05, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: See also links on FFT
Hey Chuq The reason I added the See Also links is because on other governing bodies articles with Football Federation in their name, They all have See Also catorgries on there pages. FFT was the only one without See Also so thought i would add it.

Should we add See Also to FFT or remove See Also from other governing body articles? Thanks Boltonfan22 09:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Shall be done Boltonfan22 10:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Frasier episodes
Hi there, I started to go through and fix some Frasier eps and noticed you had beaten me to some of them. How far did you get? .. just so I don't double up on looking for title to fix! -- Chuq 08:39, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * That was almost two months ago (when I thought this issue was settled!) so I don't recall too well but I figure I did all of the episodes that existed at the time. Looks like I also did "Law & Order, Criminal Intent", "Firefly", "Max Headroom", "The Twilight Zone", andn "Scrubs".  And, of course, I had fixed "Lost" as well at the time!  In case you couldn't understand my impatience with the current discussion, it's because this has already been decided before!!!  And, of course, it's involving the exact same parties as before - but the filibuster continues...  —Wknight94 (talk) 11:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Hazzard
I meant to write you about this earlier... I'm very confused about your actions concerning this page. It was speedily deleted several times before, quite justifiably. Then you speedily deleted it, restored it and restored previous versions. I don't know why you restored it after deleting it yourself, and you should be careful when restoring previous deleted versions of a page; in this case, previous deleted versions were about a different subject altogether, so restoring almost the whole history doesn't make sense here. Do you want me to AfD it? I can almost guarantee it won't survive. You've been an admin far longer than me but I'm a little puzzled about this. Grand master  ka  07:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Tainted poll?
Hi. Sorry to bother you. You participated in a television episode article naming poll which now lives at this location. Some feel that wording changes have compromised the results of that poll. If you don't mind, could you please take a look at what is there now and add a quick note at WT:TV-NC to say whether your feelings on the matter remain the same? Of course you can feel free to read over the entirety of both links for more information. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi
The last couple of reversions of today are taking current enviornmental issues out of a series of arts - I notice there appears to be no attempt at dialogue with the perpretrator - does this mean they've ogone on before or you simply are not interested in channelling the perpatrator into some other means of expression? I am not questioning the action on your part - they are unnaceptable, fair enough (or they could be explained to be ,made another way perhaps) - just curious. Would be interested in a response SatuSuro 08:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Spamalot - tell me about it - sorry to bother you! Also I have tried to unravel the past at Federal Group article - would be interested to think whether its worth develoiping further or not in that particular article or not? SatuSuro 09:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)  As the Wrest Point article is somewhat sanguine with limited linking or referencing really - and I was wondering to do the feeral group one a bit more fleshed out with details and refs - when I get around to it... SatuSuro 10:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the cleanup :) SatuSuro 10:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comment - one of these days :) SatuSuro 10:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

on again
Tasmania has another one... sigh SatuSuro 11:50, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Something that you should see
Will (Tell me, is something eluding you, sunshine?) 12:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Australian states history
Hello Chuq, I have commented on your file (Australian states history blank.gif) on COMMONSWIKI. Thank you in advance for haveing a look at it. Best regards --Marbot 20:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Daylight saving timezones map
Hey there

Thanks for your work with the daylight saving timezones map of Australia (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Australia-Timezones-Daylight.png). Wondering if you're able to update this to show WA as +9 based on the Daylight Saving legislation that came into effect here today?

-Jasonb 08:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Another one
Probably User:Cedventure needs a watch as well - reverted talk page when asked to look at some wikipedia policy. Sigh SatuSuro 13:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Assistance to address longterm vandalism problem
Hi Charles. As someone who’s helped combat the persistent vandalism of Avram over a long period of time, I’m wondering if you can help out with an instance of longterm sockpuppet abuse, vandalism, trolling and general disruptive behaviour on a similar article.

Harvardy is a sockpuppet account that was created earlier this year with the apparent sole purpose of stalking my edits to Empire of Atlantium. The account has made a total of 74 edits since being created. Its second edit was a vote to delete the article. 18 other edits consist of reversions to the article. At least 20 other edits constitute attempts to delete content about Atlantium from micronations or harassment directed at me via various talk pages.

As the edit history clearly demonstrates, the person behind the Harvardy sock has been fully conversant with me, my contributions and Wikipedia policies and processes from day one, and created the account as a deliberate source of disruption to the project.

After a period of inactivity Harvardy recently reappeared and is continuing recurring vandalism and edit-stalking of Empire of Atlantium. The vandalism comprises wholesale reversion of fully-referenced edits, using false edit summaries, as well as low-level trolling on the article talk page.

Harvardy has also set up other sockpuppets and edited using anonymous IPs to evade the 3RR and continue vandalizing the article. His socks Crooked_allele and Enenkian have both been blocked indefinitely as a result of this.

The general pattern of behaviour, edit summary wording and obsessive vandalism of Empire of Atlantium engaged in by Harvardy is identical to that of the hard-banned editor Wik / Gzornenplatz. The latter obsessively vandalized the Atlantium article and edit-stalked me for several years - exactly as Harvardy is doing now - before being banned by Jimbo.

I’d like to ask if you wouldn’t mind looking into this, and if you agree with my assessment either permanently block Harvardy, or put the article on your watch list so his vandalism can be rolled-back whenever it occurs.

I'm happy to discuss this by email or phone if you think it appropriate. --Gene_poole 04:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Soccer template
If you would look, I have only edited it where it is refered to locally (Asia still is refered to as football and in the worldwide). But the national soccer team has been redirected to national football (soccer) tem and soccer reffered to in australia-wide on wikipedia is referred to as football (soccer). Therefore these must fall inline with the wikipedia agreed term. Thank you. 58.168.213.99 09:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Chuq/TV stations
User:Chuq/TV stations has a lot of fair use images on it. Fair use images cannot be used in user space, so the ones of network logos need to be removed. JDtalk 11:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Since you've made contributions since I left this message, I'm assuming you've read it and ignored it, so I've commented out the fair use images on that page. JDtalk 09:14, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Reply: Your grid of user warning templates
Hi John, I ran across your grid of user warning templates a couple of days ago. Today, I heard about WikiProject user warnings which is a plan to centralise and standarise warning templates for all of Wikipedia. I'm sure they will find your table useful, so I have posted a link to your grid page on the projects talk page. You may get a few visitors and comments about it! Regards, Chuq 07:55, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry for any confusion, but that grid is copied directly from
 * here and I use it as a quick ref for warnings. John Reaves 08:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Australian Collaboration of the fortnight
Hi. You voted for Australian Broadcasting Corporation as Australian Collaboration. It has been selected, so please help to improve it in any way you can. Scott Davis Talk 14:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Mediation request
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television), and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Chuq
Hi Chuq,

Their views and opinions are equally not being positively recieved and on the rugby league football templates, considered vandalism. Please refer this problem to a non soccer guru instead of sticking up for blatently POV soccer people when you are an aggressive soccer POVer yourself. Meant in the most sincere spirit. Thankyou —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.10.112.157 (talk • contribs)


 * please show me one other editor that is having a problem with the template?   You might also answer why when League is not played at all in Portugal, you want to list Portugal as a Rugby League playing nation?  You (147.10.112.157) also seem happy to ignore User:Grinner's editing to the templeate.Tancred 11:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "Players must have Portuguese ancestry. Australian born players must have at least one grandparent who is Portuguese to qualify." No different from soccer. "Interest in rugby league has emerged in Portugal and amongst other Portuguese communities in the Northern Hemisphere. The PRLA hopes too channel this interest as they embark on establishing a national rugby league competition in Portugal." This clearly shows that the operations are directed towards the country and there is no precedent at all for creating some a template. It is POV  vandalism attempted to provoke.


 * There is a massive difference between this and football. Every full member nation of FIFA runs a domestic league.  As it stands the headquaters of of the PRLA is in Sydney, along with the players.  Your version of the template exists to try and show that Rubgy League is played in more countries than it actually is.  I would suggest that when there is a domestic league in Portugal, when the "national team" is based in Portugal and when the organisiation running League is based in Portugal, then we can say that Portugal is a nation that plays Rubgy League.Tancred 09:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

147.10.*
Thanks :) Tancred 10:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

missmitten vendetta?
User Missmitten is obviously new to editing Wiki; their last revision didn't read like a tourist brochure to me, but, maybe I don't read enough of them to recognize the style. I'll leave that up to you!

Loscha

User:RaptorRobot
I commented on your post on his talk page. He has an interesting style.--Merbabu 13:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Pitt Water/Pittwater
Chuq, what is the correct name/spelling of the body of water under the Sorell Causeway? Sorell, Tasmania links to Pitt Water (red link). Coal River Valley links to Pittwater, which is an article about somewhere near Sydney. Sorell Causeway say "Pittwater" without a link. --Scott Davis Talk 08:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for confirming it's Pitt Water. I'm not necessarily being consistent in which LGA links I fix or anything, but I'll do a few if I notice them. Thanks for doing the hard work of splitting all the LGA articles out. Once they get sorted, it will be much clearer to understand. SA started with that framework, but we haven't created all the LGA articles yet! --Scott Davis Talk 10:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

IAP font size
Agree with need for smaller text. Do you think any other fields merit smaller size? (My eyes are stuck firmly on the fed/state electorate and LGA ones but I think this might be controversial :)) Orderinchaos78 02:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Not a bad idea IMO. Let's take it to the IAP talk page. Orderinchaos78 03:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Did some mockups under my userspace Orderinchaos78 03:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Tenuous walker
Hi Chuq I'm not sure what to do here and I thought you may be able to help. After the problems and banning of user:147.10.112.157, today a new user appeared user:Tenuous walker. This user has madea total of 2 edits in one day, and managed to call me a "soccer vandal" and a "Troll". This user went on the revert Template:Rugby_League_Playing_Nations_links. From the language used and the edits I supect this is 147.10.112.157 avioding a ban. How do I get an admin to look into this? Thanks Tancred 19:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd just shoot him on sight - I'm not sure there's much need for a checkuser. Rebecca 01:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * have added this to an existing sockpuppet case - Suspected sock puppets/Ehinger222 (2nd). suspect relationship to and  Dibo T 05:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Tancred 09:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * And another one User:Caesar34 :( Tancred 11:27, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

John Freeman
He appears in a list of mayors of Hobart here. I'm populating the category: Mayors by City that had been in the unpopulated categories list until I took it on. I'm working through the lists of mayors to make sure that the categories are complete using other information in WP. If that doesn't appear in his article, maybe you can add that. Thanks for asking! CRKingston 04:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I read the article, and he was a politican at the right time in history. I thought he was the same guy, but I don't know that for sure. I've found lots of links on the lists of mayors for various cities that point to clearly the wrong person. If you think he isn't the same guy, feel free to remove the category I added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CRKingston (talk • contribs).

Request for Mediation
This message delivered: 04:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Edits to Kangaroos
The only reason I have not sent you a vandal warning is because you are an administrater and know what you are doing. Your edits are outrageous for their pettiness. Please do not refer to me as a banned user, I have been trying to mount a defence elsewhere for that. And never.. never remove a mention to rugby league football because it is boring stuff like that and accusations(though kindly put) that I am a sockpuppet that makes me want to just not edit. --Rugby 666 12:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * wow... i never see anyone spell 'administrater' like that, except that sockpuppeteer we all adore so... Dibo T 13:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Geez pity google has 45000 hits than mate, not really that uncommen for us poor souls raised in the age of American accents. Your own fault, if you are over 25, for not trying to put more Aussie content on t.v. --Rugby 666 13:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * ...and there's the old 'commen' misspelling. chuq - banstick. please! Dibo T 13:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually Dibo that was quite deliberate. You are boring Dibo. Your contributions strike me as somebody that has an absession problem. You are only active chasing a sockpuppet that to my knowledge has not even done anything. As I have said, ban me or not, despite my contributions, because it does not matter, I am not sure that I will even bother contributing anymore Chuq. --Rugby 666 13:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You're a banned user already, having created hundreds of sockpuppets. Prior accounts of yours are blocked indefinitely. Your creation of new accounts to evade the block is sockpuppetyr, and results in the ban counter being reset. You logged on here for quite a time (after my first SP case against you) doing RL stuff and generally keeping out of trouble, and then for some stupid unknown reason you fired up the edit wars again. Please please just stop the crap. Stop starting up edit wars with myself and Tancred, stop vandalising pages, just stop. Please. Dibo T 23:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Tas Abs
Might need a watch by the look of things, hope youre around/on for it! SatuSuro 13:28, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Second eye
Can you cast your eye at User talk:Orderinchaos78/Temp For Deletion (a reformulation of Gwelup, Western Australia) and let me know any thoughts you have on it - thanks :) (Any suggestions on improving the version on TFD is welcome)

It's all based on the Template:Australian Politics Suburb I've been working on to replace the odd manual boxes we've been seeing on some articles. Both of the above articles, btw, use the same template but in different modes. Orderinchaos78 00:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand tag box thing
Have you seen the New Zealand tag/box thing (what is the correct name for them?) at the end of the New Zealand article? What about having one of those for Tasmania, so all the loose links to other related articles can be tidied up? Knobbly 05:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Please
If you are around - could you look at the national park thingy... there appears to be no communication between the two editors and only a summary - I think there is a need for some forum/discussion on this sort of category creation and change - rather than what is happening so far... SatuSuro 12:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * They appear to have resolved (more my problem than theirs :. and are speaking. SatuSuro 00:34, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Courtesy note about ArbCom proceeding
Hiya, just wanted to drop you a courtesy note to let you know about a current ArbCom proceeding where your name is briefly mentioned: Requests for arbitration/Naming Conventions. No action is needed on your part, though if you would like to participate in the case by offering a statement, evidence, or comments on the workshop page, you are more than welcome. FYI, Elonka 05:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

State Projects
Hey when are we going to get a Tassie one going? (no conflict with other locations at least) SatuSuro 00:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Having broken ground with the Australian maritime history and Western Australian projects - I could have it up and running tonight - any objecctions? SatuSuro 01:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well actually - maybe a day or two - some of my perth friends are wizzos with some parts of templates andd thingies Im not exactly proficient with - but... could always start.... SatuSuro 01:47, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hehe... Us Perthies are getting around! As an occasional visitor to and admirer of Tasmania I'd be happy to help, especially with the Launceston related articles. Orderinchaos78 03:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Unjust deletion of changes?
Hi Chuq. You deleted my changes to the rage (TV program) page. I really don't think this was reasonable. The problem was that I added a link to some software I wrote. The software however could not be more relevant to the subject matter. Furthermore you deleted all my changes, including the fact that rage puts their playlists up online each week (something I thought was sorely missing). Why delete useful information? The guidelines say "Do not simply revert changes in a dispute". Back to the software link, wikipedia is not and should not be free of links to software, commercial or otherwise. That would make some wiki pages more or less useless. First example I thought of was Computer-generated imagery, which could be explained without reference to commercial software, but would be sorely lacking without it (in fact, that page is surprisingly short and only refers to Maya, so it is sorely lacking!). Would you go about deleting all such links? I linked to software that is directly relevant to the subject matter, and my new section contained other important information which was independent of that link. Please restore my changes, or explain how anything I added was not directly relevant to the topic. Thanks, Rob.


 * I see you're an expert on semiregular polyhedra now too. Seems you deleted my edits there as a response to my comment above, rather than bothering to reply.  Again, my edit included a link to software which allowed people to view the semiregular polyhedra, and print nets for their construction.  Nothing could be more relevant to the topic, and people interested in the topic will miss out on a further avenue for studying semiregular polyhedra thanks to you.  By your definition, all external links would be "linkspam".  I do not appreciate the "spam" label.  I hate spam, and would never edit a wiki page except by adding relevant material.  By the way, my Stella (software) has its own wiki page.  Are you planning to delete that too without discussion?  I'd like to point out that the page was created and edited by others off their own bat, and I have not touched it (since writing that I did make one edit, to categorise it).  I would appreciate some feedback and discussion before you go deleting anything else unthinkingly on topics you know nothing about.  Thanks, Rob.  14:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, quick update, I see you did reply on the chat page of my old user-name (was expecting to find the reply here). You're right that there is a self-interest, in that I would like people to come to my website, but that in no way negates the relevance of either link.  I will check the references you gave, thanks.  You said that you deleted the whole section about rage's playlists because it was "pretty obvious" that they were online.  How is this obvious until you're told about it?  I think it's one of the best things about rage, and I didn't know for years that the playlists were online.  It's certainly something I'd expect to find out at wiki.  Rob.  14:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)